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Probably the "Jumping Jack" was the first "moving picture'' toy ever invented.
Thru we have the "Jack-in-theBox," which is a grotesque figure, lniilt on a spiral spring. We press Jack down until he is concealed in the boXj we turn the little wire Fastener, and then -hick is ready to spring out and frighten the firsl one who dares to release the spring by opening the fastening.
Another toy of the same order as the "Jumping Jack" is the acrobat who Bwings from a double cord Btretched between two sticks. This figure is double-jointed, and as yon press the two Bticks toward each other, the cords become twisted and the acrobal flies around and twists itself into all kinds of contort ions. There are and have been numerous other
to\ s mi the market, in which mot ion is the main point.
All of t hese show thai modern children crave and insisi on having toys that move : Buch as engines thai will pull a train of t.»\ cars, boats that will Bail, dolls thai <>|..-n their •
and s.» on. And it w as just BO with
pictures, still pictures air good, but moving pictures are better. Mr. Terr's booh is ihr nni\ |)(M.k of real m..\ ing pictures thai I have ever Been There has been no im
'•innt on thai kind of boOB in
I'.nt there have been
kinds nt' moving pictures in
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ferent prineiple. It will be seen that all of the foregoing toys were real moving toys. In Mr. Torr's book, the pictures really move, and the motion is continuous, uninterrupted, actual, and not illusionary. It was soon discovered that this sort of toy had its limitations; that it could not be carried much further ; that it could tell only a very short story — like the "Jumping Jack." It remained, then, for someto discover a new method of apparent animation in to invent a new
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producing inanimate objectsprocess by which the objects in a picture would appear to move. Many inventors worked on tins idea, and it was gradually discovered that if a scries of pictures were moved rapidly before the eye, each successive picture showing the object a little farther along, the effect would be that of continuous motion. When this idea became known, many toys founded on that principle were invented, and 1 have made sketches of some of them, which are here shown. But first let me make it (dear and simple what the principle is. Suppose yon take a pen and twenty small sheets of rather thick paper, say about four inches square. Draw a picture of a child sitting in a swin^ on the first sheet of paper. Now draw the same child and swine; on the second sheet of paper,
only have the swing at another angle,
and make tin' child about a qnarterof-an-inch farther to the right New draw the third picture, with the swini: moved about a <|narter-of-an-inch farther along in the semicircle that the ropes would describe if the irirl were actually swinging. Then make another, and another, and .so on. each show inn the girl a little farther along : and when you have made eighl or ten of these, make the same number showing the girl swinging back, and then
the same number going the other wa.\ .
Mow pin or fasten all your sheets